![]() ![]() This wasn’t delving into foreign territory. To learn what truck owners really want and need Ford had only to talk to its own customers. The Ford Lightning is an all-electric version of the best-selling truck in America. Ford has plans to make 150,000 of these trucks a year, which is equal to about 20% of all the F-series trucks Ford sold last year. It’s now in production by a company that already knows how to produce vehicles in big numbers. This is a real truck, not a toy for campers and not a weird design exercise. ![]() (The front storage compartment is watertight and has drain plugs.) It can even power your entire home for days if you need it to. All that, and it does stuff you never imagined a truck would do, like provide workspace that also functions as a drinks cooler under the hood. ![]() It’s quick and powerful, and it drives better than any F-150 I’ve been in before. But the electric pickup truly hit the mass market last month when Ford started production on the F-150 Lightning at its famous Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan. Rivian came out with its electric pickup, the R1T, which won the 2022 MotorTrend Truck of the Year Award. Tesla in 2019 revealed the prototype for its futuristic, electric Cybertruck but still hasn’t put it into production. Newer automakers have so far led the way on electric trucks. All it took was making it completely electric, something that, not long ago, might have seemed off-brand for a traditional truck company like Ford. The Ford F-150 Lightning may be the best pickup truck the company has ever made. ![]()
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